The Wiener-Anspach Foundation is pleased to present its Activity Report for 2022, a year that marked the long-awaited return of in-person activities: the Ganshof van der Meersch Chair, held by Professor Paul Betts (University of Oxford), as well as the visit to the International Carnival and Mask Museum, organised by [...]
We are delighted to share a few pictures of the Philippe Wiener Lecture on "Prismatic translation" delivered by Professor Matthew Reynolds (University of Oxford) at the Université libre de Bruxelles on March 7. We warmly thank the Faculty of Letters, Translation and Communication for their welcome, the students who [...]
On 21 February 2023 the Maison française d'Oxford hosted a workshop on the ethical design for AI in medicine, co-organised by our Doctoral Fellow Aurelia Sauerbrei. “Artificial intelligence (AI) is slowly but steadily being introduced in medical and healthcare settings. From basic research to applied systems already deployed in [...]
Edward Lee-Six, PhD in French and English Literature (University of Cambridge), is currently a Wiener-Anspach postdoctoral fellow at ULB, where he is conducting research on “Emile Verhaeren at the cross-roads of Belgian symbolism and English romanticism". This week, he is co-organising two book launches with the French publisher Les [...]
After a long pause, the Wiener-Anspach Foundation is delighted to announce that its Philippe Wiener Lectures will resume on Tuesday 7 March at the Université libre de Bruxelles, with a conference by Matthew Reynolds (Professor of English and Comparative Criticism at the University of Oxford). Professor Reynolds, who will [...]
The Wiener-Anspach Foundation is delighted to announce that the holder of the 2022-2023 Ganshof van der Meersch Chair is Chris Bickerton (Professor in Modern European Politics at the University of Cambridge and Official Fellow at Queens' College, Cambridge). Initially scheduled for 2020/2021, this chair had to be postponed due [...]
This week marks the start of a seminar series organised by Professors Athena Tsingarida (CreA-Patrimoine, ULB) and Irene Lemos (Faculty of Classics, University of Oxford), in the framework of their collaborative research project “Crete and Euboea in an interconnecting world (from the 12th to 6th century BC): The role [...]
On 24 and 25 January, with the support of the Wiener-Anspach Foundation, Hélène Sechehaye (Professor of Ethnomusicology at the Royal Conservatory of Brussels and member of the Laboratoire de Musicologie at ULB) will be in Cambridge to give a lecture and a workshop. She will be welcomed by our [...]
Conducted by Alessandro Parente (École polytechnique de Bruxelles) and Nedunchezhian Swaminathan (Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge), the project "Alchemy - Machine Learning for Complex Multiphysics Problems" was one of the nine collaborative research projects funded by the Wiener-Anspach Foundation from 2018 to 2020. This collaboration has now resulted [...]
On December 13, the FNRS awarded its Incentive grants for scientific research to thirteen researchers, including six from the Université libre de Bruxelles. Among the latter are Wiener-Anspach Alumni Nathalie Brack, Corentin Caudron and Guillaume Schweicher. Nathalie Brack, Assistant Professor at the Department of Political Science, was selected for [...]
